How Your Habits Shape Your Identity (and Vice Versa)
Why is it so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?Few things can have a more powerful impact on your life than improving your daily habits.And yet it is likely that this time next year you’ll be doing the same thing rather than something better.
It often feels difficult to keep good habits going for more than a few days, even with sincere effort and the occasional burst of motivation.Habits like exercise, meditation, journaling, and cooking are reasonable for a day or two and then become a hassle.
However, once your habits are established, they seem to stick around forever—especially the unwanted ones.Despite our best intentions, unhealthy habits like eating junk food, watching too much television, procrastinating, and smoking can feel impossible to break.
Changing our habits is challenging for two reasons: (1) we try to change the wrong thing and (2) we try to change our habits in the wrong way.In this chapter, I’ll address the first point. In the chapters that follow, I’ll answer the second.
Despite our best intentions, unhealthy habits like eating junk food, watching too much television, procrastinating, and smoking can feel impossible to break.
尽管我们有最好的意图,不健康的习惯,比如吃垃圾食品、看电视过多、拖延和抽烟,往往让人觉得无法打破。
Best intentions[bɛst ɪnˈtɛnʃənz]
最好的意图
Ex: Despite our best intentions, we often fail to keep resolutions.